[Xastir] Compile 1.9.5 on Cygwin?

[Bob Donnell]

The strongest counter-argument I'd make to running cygwin is that xastir 
runs in about 1/5th of the CPU load in the Antix VM under VMWare Player 
2.x than running the same version of Xastir, under Cygwin.  

Also, Cygwin requires a big chunk of available memory to link Xastir.  I 
think all of the libraries have to be loaded at the same time, for the 
linker to link the project.  It was a problem on my dual-PIII machine, 
which was at 512M for a long time.

73, Bob, KD7NM

On Sunday 01 February 2009 09:51:06 Alex Carver wrote:
> --- On Sun, 2/1/09, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 9, 12:44 PM
>
> > On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Alex Carver wrote:
> > > Unfortunately this fix is entirely dependent on the
> >
> > Cygwin mirrors
> >
> > > chosen.  If the mirror still has a copy of the 6.x
> >
> > version of
> >
> > > xorg-x11-devel then you'll be ok.  If not,
> >
> > there's no way to get
> >
> > > around the bug.  I tried this same fix for a full
> >
> > weekend a couple
> >
> > > weeks ago but I couldn't find a mirror that would
> >
> > let me go that
> >
> > > far back with the versions.
> >
> > Another method is to run VMWare Player and one of the
> > vmware images
> > that contains Xastir on Linux.  More reliable long-term
> > than Cygwin
> > if you've got enough memory and horsepower to run two
> > OS'es at once.
> >
> > If no, there's always the possibility of piecing
> > together an old PC
> > out of spare parts and installing Linux.
>
> Amazingly enough an upgrade of Cygwin on a machine that compiled fine
> still seems to work.  So the obsolete package never gets removed.  But
> it's pretty obvious that the Cygwin people forgot something and broke
> it.  I imagine it'll get cleared up after a few more rounds of rewrites.
>
> There are certain advantages to Cygwin over the VM.  For starters, you
> don't have to wrestle with the configuration of system hardware to make
> the VM work (network, serial ports, etc.)  It just works right away
> under Cygwin.
>
> I've never had an opportunity to try out a VM version of Xastir but I do
> now have a copy of the Xastir image and I just have to download the VM
> player to see what happens.  My Linux machine that was running Xastir
> has a nasty hardware problem somewhere and it locks up.  I think it's
> several bad capacitor on the motherboard.  I found one leaking.
>
>
>
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